request-refactor-plan

request-refactor-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 53 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of request-refactor-plan, Apache-2.0.

A guided process for defining a refactoring request, checking the existing code and tests, and recording a small-step implementation plan as a GitHub issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning refactors, checking test coverage, deciding what will change, and organizing incremental implementation steps.
Why use it?
It helps make large code changes safer by clarifying scope, considering alternatives, and breaking the work into reviewable commits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for planning refactors, checking test coverage, deciding what will change, and organizing incremental implementation steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/request-refactor-plan
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JustineDevs/premortem --skill request-refactor-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.00555
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00222
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d59de4ba6cc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

request-refactor-plan scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to request-refactor-plan — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/engineering/deprecated/request-refactor-plan/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill will be invoked when the user wants to create a refactor request. You should go through the steps below. You may skip steps if you don't consider them necessary.

  1. Ask the user for a long, detailed description of the problem they want to solve and any potential ideas for solutions.

  2. Explore the repo to verify their assertions and understand the current state of the codebase.

  3. Ask whether they have considered other options, and present other options to them.

  4. Interview the user about the implementation. Be extremely detailed and thorough.

  5. Hammer out the exact scope of the implementation. Work out what you plan to change and what you plan not to change.

  6. Look in the codebase to check for test coverage of this area of the codebase. If there is insufficient test coverage, ask the user what their plans for testing are.

  7. Break the implementation into a plan of tiny commits. Remember Martin Fowler's advice to "make each refactoring step as small as possible, so that you can always see the program working."

  8. Create a GitHub issue with the refactor plan. Use the following template for the issue description:

Problem Statement

The problem that the developer is facing, from the developer's perspective.

Solution

The solution to the problem, from the developer's perspective.

Commits

A LONG, detailed implementation plan. Write the plan in plain English, breaking down the implementation into the tiniest commits possible. Each commit should leave the codebase in a working state.

Decision Document

A list of implementation decisions that were made. This can include:

  • The modules that will be built/modified
  • The interfaces of those modules that will be modified
  • Technical clarifications from the developer
  • Architectural decisions
  • Schema changes
  • API contracts
  • Specific interactions

Do NOT include specific file paths or code snippets. They may end up being outdated very quickly.

Testing Decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A d59de4ba6cc1

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request-refactor-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to request-refactor-plan, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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